Salient Features

Minimum General Requirements

The minimum general requirements for the 4-years BBS programme are as follows:

1. An academic year will consist of a minimum of 150 teaching days excluding the days taken for admission and annual examinations.

2. The total instructional hours in an academic year will be 615 (150 days x 4:10 hours a day). For courses requiring field and practical works, additional hours of study will be required.

3. There will be a minimum of five periods (i.e. class hours) each teaching day. The campuses running morning or evening shifts will also be required to meet this minimum class requirement.

Attendance, Evaluation and Grading System

The final evaluation of students is done through the annual examination conducted by the Office of the Controller of Examinations, Tribhuvan University. However, for qualifying to appear in the annual examinations, students must meet the following requirements:

(a) The student must have a minimum of 70 percent attendance of the classes actually held.

(b) No student will be allowed to appear in the second year final examinations without first appearing in the first year final examinations.

The grading system in the annual examinations is as follows:

Third Division 35 Percent
Second Division 45 Percent
First Division 60 Percent
Distinction 75 Percent

Methods of Instruction

The campuses offering the BBS programme should use the methods of instruction which help prepare the student for the realities of Nepalese business, industry and government in which he/she has to

work.

A combination of lectures, group discussions, problem-solving exercises, guest lectures, practical work, and fieldwork will be used as approaches to learning. The campuses are also encouraged to use

the case method of instruction whenever required and wherever possible.

Eligibility

The candidate applying for admission to the BBS program of Tribhuvan University:

Students who have passed 10+2 or equivalent examinations from the recognized academic institutes with second division (securing 45% and above) or 1.8 CGPA are eligible to enroll in this program.

Admission Criteria

Model Questions; BBS 3rd year Fundamental of Financial Management.pdf

Curricular Structure

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The Faculty of Management recognizes the need for both breadth and depth in the total academic pattern. Therefore, the curriculum for BBS degree comprises four separate and distinct course components:

A strong foundation in allied areas of business such as language, economic analysis, legal environment, quantitative methods and research methods to prepare graduates to understand, analyze and comprehend the management concepts, theories and practices.
Core business studies encompassing and integrating all functional areas to provide graduates with an appreciation of the diversity and inter-relationship of business and management issues.
The opportunity to concentrate in one area of specialization such as accounting, finance, human resources management, management science, and marketing in order to provide graduates with some degree of functional expertise.

Curricular Structure of Bachelor of Business Studies-BBS (4 year program)

First Year

English
Business Studies
Micro Economics
Cost and Management Accountancy
Principles of Management

Second year

Business Communication
Macro Economics
Cost and Management Accounting
Fundamentals of Marketing
Fundamentals of Human Resource Management

Third Year

Business Environment Strategy
Fundamental of Financial Management
Business Law
Taxation and Auditing
Organizational Behavior

Fourth Year

Entrepreneurship and Enterprise Development
Business Research Methods-50/Final Project-50
Concentration I
Concentration II

Course Composition

Compulsory Courses

MGT 201: Business EnglishMGT 202: Business StatisticsMGT 203: MicroeconomicsMGT 204: Business LawMGT 205: Business CommunicationMGT 206: Macroeconomics

Core Courses

MGT 211: Accounting for Financial AnalysisMGT 212: Cost and Management AccountingMGT 213: Principles of ManagementMGT 214: Fundamentals of MarketingMGT 215: Fundamentals of Financial ManagementMGT 216: Foundations of Human Resource ManagementMGT 217: Business Environment and StrategyMGT 218: Taxation and auditingMGT 219: Organizational BehaviorMGT 220: Entrepreneurship and Enterprise DevelopmentMGT 221: Business Research Methods

Concentration Area (Three courses from any one of the following five functional areas)

Accounting

ACC 250: Accounting for BankingACC 251: Accounting for BusinessACC 252: Advanced Financial AccountingACC 253: Advance AuditingACC 254: Budgeting and Controlling of Profit

Finance

FIN 250: Fundamentals of Corporate FinanceFIN 251: Commercial Bank ManagementFIN 252: Foundations of Financial Institutions and MarketsFIN 253: Fundamentals of InvestmentFIN 254: Insurance and Risk Management

Marketing

MKT 250: Fundamentals of SellingMKT 251: Customer Relationship ManagementMKT 252: Foreign Trade and Export Management in NepalMKT 253: Fundamentals of AdvertisingMKT 254: Fundamentals of Services Marketing

Management

MGT 250: Entrepreneurship and Small Business ManagementMGT 251: International BusinessMGT 252: Management of Industrial RelationsMGT 253: Productivity ManagementMGT 254: Quality Management

MGT 201: Business English

Course Contents

Unit 1: Interdisciplinary Approach to Learning English (Weightage 40%)
Unit 2: Functional English Language Texts (Weightage 15%)
Unit 3: Reading for Writing (Weightage 30%)
Unit 4: Style (Weightage 15%)

MGT 202: Business Statistics

Course Contents

Unit 1: Introduction to Statistics
Unit 2: Classification and Presentation of Data
Unit 3: Measures of Central Tendency
Unit 4: Measures of Dispersion
Unit 5: Skewness, Kurtosis and Moments
Unit 6: Simple Correlation and Regression Analysis
Unit 7: Analysis of Time Series
Unit 8: Index Numbers
Unit 9: Probability
Unit 10: Sampling and Estimation
Unit 11: Quantitative Analysis
Unit 12: Determinant
Unit 13: Matrix

MGT 203: Microeconomics

Course Contents

Unit 1: Introduction
Unit 2: Theory of Demand and Supply and Equilibrium Price
Unit 3: Elasticity of demand and supply
Unit 4: Theory of Consumer Behavior
Unit 5: Theory of Production LH 16
Unit 6: Cost and Revenue Curves
Unit 7: Theory of Product Pricing
Unit 8: Theory of Factor Pricing

MGT 204 Business Law

Course Contents

Unit 1: Introduction to Law and Business Law
Unit 2: General Law of Contract
Unit 2: Bailment
Unit 3: Contract of Agency
Unit 4: Contract of Sale of Goods
Unit 5: Contract of Carriage
Unit 6: Law of Negotiable Instruments
Unit 7: Law of Company and Insolvency
Unit 8: Arbitration
Unit 9: Indemnity and Guarantee

MGT 205: Business Communication

Course Contents

I. Business English (50%)

MGT 206: Macroeconomics

Course Contents

Unit 1: Introduction to Macroeconomics
Unit 2: National Income Accounting
Unit 3: Classical Theory of Employment
Unit 4: Kaynesian Macroeconomics
Unit 5: Income determination (IS-LM) model: Hicks-Hansen Approach
Unit 6: Inflation
Unit 7: Business Cycles
Unit 8: Monetary Theory
Unit 9: Government Finance
Unit 10: Contemporary Issues (with reference to Nepal)

MGT 211: Accounting for Financial Analysis

Course Contents

Unit 1: Company: Conceptual and theoretical foundation
Unit 2: Financial Statement of the Company
Unit 3: Analysis of Financial Statement of a Company
Unit 4: Company Growth, Merger, Combination and Liquidation
Unit 5: Depreciation and its Effect in Financial Statement of a Company
Unit 6: Price Level Changes
Unit 7: Long-term Planning – Capital Budgeting

MGT 212: Cost and Management Accounting

Course Contents

Unit 1: Conceptual Foundation
Unit 2: Accounting for Materials
Unit 3: Accounting for Labour Cost
Unit 4: Accounting for Overhead Cost:
Unit 5: Costing in Different SituationsLH 30
Unit 6: Accounting for Profit Planning
Unit 7: Cost Accounting for Planning and Control
Unit 8: Cost Reduction

MGT 213: Principles of Management

Course Contents

Unit 1: The Nature of Organizations
Unit 2: Introduction to Management
Unit 3: Evolution of Management Thought
Unit 4: Environmental Context of Management
Unit 5: Planning and Decision Making
Unit 6: Organizing Function
Unit 7: Leadership
Unit 8: Motivation
Unit 9: Communication
Unit 10: Control and Quality Management
Unit 11: Global Context of Management
Unit 12: Management Trends and Scenario in Nepal

MGT 214: Fundamentals of Marketing

Course Contents

Unit 1: Introduction
Unit 2: Understanding Marketing Environment
Unit 3: Managing Market Information
Unit 4: Market Segmentation, Targeting and Positioning
Unit 5: Understanding Buyer's Behavior
Unit 6: Product Decision
Unit 7: Pricing Decision
Unit 8: Promotion Decision
Unit 9: Distribution Decision
Unit 10: Marketing Practices in Nepal

MGT 215: Fundamentals of Financial Management

Course Contents

Unit 1: Introduction to Financial Management
Unit 2: Financial Statements and Analysis
Unit 3: Time Value of Money
Unit 4: Risk and Return
Unit 5: Bond Valuation
Unit 6: Stock Valuation
Unit 7: Cost of Capital
Unit 8: Basics of Capital Budgeting Decision
Unit 9: Capital Structure and Leverage
Unit 10: Dividend Policy
Unit 11: Working Capital and Current Assets Management

MGT 216: Foundations of Human Resource Management

Course Contents

Unit 1: Introduction to Human Resource Management
Unit 2: Human Resource Planning
Unit 3: Job Design and Analysis
Unit 4: Recruitment, Selection and Socialization
Unit 5: Training and Development
Unit 6: Motivation
Unit 7: Performance Appraisal and Reward Management
Unit 8: Compensation Management
Unit 9: Employees Discipline
Unit 10: Labor Relations: Grievances and Dispute Settlement

MGT 217: Business Environment & Strategy

Part I: Business Environment

Course Contents

Unit 1: Introduction to Business Environment
Unit 2: Political Environment
Unit 3: Environment Regulations/Legal Environment
Unit 4: Economic Environment
Unit 5: Socio-Cultural Environment
Unit 6:Technological Environment
Unit 7: Asian and Global Environment

Part II: Strategic Management

Course Contents

Unit 1: Strategic Management
Unit 2: Establishing Company Direction
Unit 3: Internal Analysis
Unit 4: Evaluating Company Resources and Competitive Capabilities
Unit 5: Strategic Options
Unit 6: Strategy Formulation and Strategic Choice
Unit 7: Strategy Implementation
Unit 8: Strategic Control and Evaluation

MGT 218: Fundamentals of Taxation and Auditing

Part – I: Taxation

Course Contents

Unit 1: Conceptual Foundation
Unit 2: Taxation of Income in Nepal
Unit 3: Definition of basic terms under Income Tax Act
Unit 4: Tax Accounting and Timing
Unit 5: Quantification, Allocation and Characterization of Amounts
Unit 6: Capital and Revenue
Unit 7: Classification and Status of an Assessee (Tax Payer)
Unit 8: Tax Exemptions, Concessions, Tax Rates and Withholding Payments
Unit 9: Heads and Sources of Income
Unit 10: Computation of Taxable Income and Tax Liability from Employment
Unit 11: Computation of Taxable Income and Tax Liability from Business
Unit 12: Computation of Taxable Income and Tax Liability from Investment
Unit 13: Taxation on Capital Gain
Unit 14: Computation of Total Taxable Income (in case of more than one
Unit 15: Provision for losses
Unit 16: Tax Administration and Official Documentations LH 6
Unit 17: Income Return and Tax Assessment
Unit 18: Payment, Collection (recovery/realization), Remission, Refund and Set-Off
Unit 19: Penal Provision
Unit 20: Administrative Review and Appeal
Unit 21: Value Added Tax (VAT)
Unit 22: Contribution of Income Tax and Value Added Tax to National Revenue and Tax Revenue in Nepal.

Part – II: Auditing

Course Contents

Unit 1: Conceptual Foundation
Unit 2: Planning an Audit
Unit 3: Internal Check and Control
Unit 4: Vouching, Verification and Valuation
Unit 5: Audit Report
Unit 6: Auditing Standard

MGT 219 Organizational Behavior

Course Contents

Unit 1: Introduction to Organizational Behavior
Unit 2: Understanding Individual Behavior
Unit 3: Perception and Learning
Unit 4: Personality
Unit 5: Motivation and Job Satisfaction
Unit 6: Groups and Teams in Organizations
Unit 7: Leadership
Unit 8: Communication
Unit 9: Conflict
Unit 10: Organizational Change and Development

MGT220: Entrepreneurship and Enterprise Development

Course Contents

Unit 1: Introduction
Unit 2: Women entrepreneurship
Unit 3: Growth of Entrepreneurship
Unit 4: Entrepreneurship Competency Development (ECD)
Unit 5: Entrepreneurial Venture Creation
Unit 6: Legal Issues of Entrepreneurial Venture
Unit 7: Financing of Entrepreneurial Venture
Unit 8: Institutional Support to Entrepreneurship Development

MGT 221: Business Research Methods

Course Contents

Unit 1: Introduction
Unit 2: Literature searching and Theoretical Framework
Unit 3: Research Design
Unit 4: Measurement, Scaling and Sampling
Unit 5: Data Collection and Analysis
Unit 6: Research Proposal and Report Writing

ACC 250: Accounting for Banking

Course Contents

Unit 1: Introduction
Unit 2: Accounting for Deposit
Unit 3: Accounting for Bills for Collection
Unit 4: Accounting for Guarantee and Margin Deposit
Unit 5: Letter of Credit (LC)
Unit 6: Accounting for Remittance
Unit 7: Accounting for Credit and Advances
Unit 8: Accounting for Cash Transactions
Unit 9: Accounting for Treasury Management
Unit 10: Banking Technology Products
Unit 11: Concept of BASEL Framework
Unit 12: Anti Money Laundering (AML)
Unit 13: Accounting for Decision Making
Unit 14: Accounting for Control
Unit 15: Preparation of Financial Statements
Unit 16: Financial Statements Analysis
Project Work

ACC 251: Accounting for Business

Course Contents

Unit 1: Accounting for Partnership
Unit 2: Admission of New Partner
Unit 3: Retirement and Death of a Partner
Unit 4: Dissolution of a Partnership Firm and Piecemeal Distribution
Unit 5: Accounting for Consignments
Unit 6: Accounting for Joint Ventures
Unit 7: Accounting for Branch
Unit 8: Accounting for Department of Activity
Unit 9: Accounting for Packages or Containers
Unit 10: Accounting Professional Men
Unit 11: Accounting for Royalties
Unit 12: Accounting for Hire Purchase System
Unit 13: Accounting for Installment System
Project Work

ACC 252: Advanced Financial Accounting

Course Contents

Unit 1: Introduction
Unit 2: Preparation of Company Accounts
Unit 3: Valuation of Goodwill and Shares
Unit 4: New Trend in Accounting
Unit 5: Accounting for Contract
Unit 6: Accounting for Non-Profit Organizations
Unit 7: Government Accounting in Nepal
Project Work

ACC 253: Advance Auditing

Course Contents

Unit 1: Conceptual Foundation
Unit 2: Planning an Audit
Unit 3: Internal check and control
Unit 4: Vouching
Unit 5: Audit of Impersonal Ledgers
Unit 6: Verification and valuation of asset and liabilities
Unit 7: Depreciation, reserve and provision
Unit 8: Appointment, remuneration and right and duties of an auditor
Unit 9: Audit of a limited company
Unit 10: Audit of divisible profits and dividends
Unit 11: Audit report
Unit 12: Liabilities of an auditor
Unit 13: Audit programmes and Procedures of different classes of Audits
Unit 14: Investigation
Unit 15: Government Audit in NepalUnit
16: Recent trends in auditing
Project Work

ACC 254: Budgeting and Controlling of Profit

Course Contents

Unit 1: Conceptual Foundation
Unit 2: Sales Planning and control
Unit 3: Production Planning and Control
Unit 4: Planning of Factor of Production
Unit 5: Planning and Controlling Cash
Unit 6: Completion of Profit Plan
Unit 7: Zero-Based Budgeting
Unit 8: Planning and Controlling Capital Expenditures
Unit 9: Application of Cost Volume Profit Analysis in Profit Planning
Unit 10: Performance Reports for Management Control
Project Work

FIN 250: Fundamentals of Corporate Finance

Course Contents

Unit 1: Introduction to Corporate Finance
Unit 2: Financial Markets and Institutions
Unit 3: Interest Rate
Unit 4: Short-Term Financing
Unit 5: Common Stock and Investment Banking Process
Unit 6: Long-Term Debt and Preferred Stock Financing
Unit 7: Capital Structure and Leverage
Unit 8: Financial Planning and Forecasting
Unit 9: Derivatives and Risk Management
Unit 10: Multinational Corporate Finance
Unit 11: Merger and Acquisition
Project Work

FIN 251: Commercial Bank Management

Course Contents

Unit 1: Introduction to Commercial Banking
Unit 2: The Bank Regulatory Environment
Unit 3: Evaluating Bank Performance
Unit 4: Asset/Liability Management
Unit 5: Investment Management
Unit 6: Credit Evaluation Process
Unit 7: Commercial and Industrial Lending
Unit 8: Real Estate and Consumer Lending
Unit 9: Liquidity Management
Unit 10: Capital Management
Unit 11: Liabilities Management
Unit 12: Off-Balance Sheet Activities
Unit 13: Electronic Banking
Project Work

FIN 252: Foundations of Financial Markets and Institutions

Course Contents

Unit 1: Introduction
Unit 2: Financial Institutions, Financial Intermediaries and Asset Management Firms
Unit 3: Depository Institutions
Unit 4: The Central Bank and Monetary Policy
Unit 5: Insurance Companies
Unit 6: Investment Companies and Pension Funds
Unit 7: Determinants of Asset Prices and Interest Rates
Unit 8: Organization and Structure of Markets
Unit 9: Market for Government Securities
Unit 10: Markets for Common Stock
Unit 11: Market for Corporate Senior Securities
Unit 12: The Mortgage and Asset-backed Securities Markets
Unit 13: Risks of Financial Institutions
Project Work

FIN 253: Fundamentals of Investment

Course Contents

Unit 1: Investment Environment
Unit 2: Markets and Transactions
Unit 3: Investment Information and Securities Transactions
Unit 4: Return and Risk
Unit 5: Modern Portfolio
Unit 6: Common Stock Fundamentals
Unit 7: Common Stock Analysis and Valuation
Unit 8: Fixed Income Securities
Unit 9: Bond Valuation
Unit 10: Mutual Fund
Unit 11: Managing Portfolios
Unit 12: Derivative Securities
Project Work

FIN 254: Insurance and Risk Management

Course Contents

Unit 1: Introduction to Risk and Insurance
Unit 2: Risk Management
Unit 3: Risk Identification and Measurement
Unit 4: Fundamental Legal Principles and Insurance Contract
Unit 5: Life Insurance
Unit 6: Health Insurance
Unit 7: Auto Insurance
Unit 8: Homeowners Insurance
Unit 9: Commercial Property Insurance
Unit 10: Commercial Liability Insurance
Unit 11: Social Insurance
Unit 12: Government Regulations of Insurance
Project Work

MKT 250: Fundamentals of Selling

Course Contents

Unit 1: Introduction
Unit 2: Understanding Sales Process
Unit 3: Communication & Transactional Analysis in Sales Job
Unit 4: Buyer Behaviour and Buying Process
Unit 5: Building Future Sales and Customers Relations
Unit 6: Managing Sales force in the Organization
Unit 7: Arrangement of Sales Territories
Unit 8: Arrangement of Sales Quotas
Unit 9: International Sales
Unit 10: Evaluating, Supervising and Controlling Sales and Sales Personnel
Project Work

MKT 251: Customer Relationship Management

Course Contents

Unit 1: Introduction
Unit 2: Customer care and delighting customers
Unit 3: Building customer loyalty
Unit 4: Customer retention
Unit 5: Measuring customer satisfaction
Unit 6: Customer service planning
Unit 7: Implementation of customer relationship management system
Unit 8: Customer data management and warehousing
Unit 9: CRM practices in Nepal
Project Work

MKT 252: Foreign Trade & Export Management in Nepal

Course Contents

Unit 1: Introduction
Unit 2: Commercial and Industrial Policy
Unit 3: Balance of Payments and Adjustment
Unit 4: Export promotion through EPZ and SEZ
Unit 5: Export Procedure and Documentation
Unit 6: Export Finance
Unit 7: Transit System and its Arrangements in Nepal
Unit 8: Role of Regional Economic Cooperation & International Organizations in Nepal’s Foreign Trade
Project Work

MKT 253: Fundamentals of Advertising

Course Contents

Unit 1: Introduction
Unit 2: Advertising Business and Advertising Agencies
Unit 3: Creation of Advertisements
Unit 4: Designing the Advertising Message
Unit 5: Advertising Appeals
Unit 6: Media Planning and Scheduling
Unit 7: Establishing and Allocating Advertising Budget
Unit 8: Measuring Advertising Effectiveness
Unit 9: Advertising Business practices in Nepal
Project Work

MKT 254: Fundamentals of Services Marketing

Course Contents

Unit 1: Introduction
Unit 2: Models in Services Marketing
Unit 3: Market Segmentation, Targeting and Positioning for a services Firm
Unit 4: Customer Perceptions and Expectations of Services
Unit 5: Buyer Behaviour and Relationship Marketing
Unit 6: Service Product and Quality Management
Unit 7: Pricing Strategies for Services
Unit 8: Promotion Strategies for Services
Unit 9: Distribution Strategies for Services
Unit 10: Emerging Service Sectors in Nepal
Project Work

MGT 250: Entrepreneurship and Small Business Management

Course Contents

Unit 1: Introduction
Unit 2: Meaning of Small Business
Unit 3: Causes of Failure of Small Business
Unit 4: Importance of Location in Business and feasibility Analysis
Unit 5: Nature and Importance of Management and Start-Up of Business
Unit 6: Nature of Capital Needs
Unit 7: Factors for Product-line Decision
Unit 8: Sources of Long-term Funds
Unit 9: Management of Small Retail Store
Project Work

MGT 251: International Business

Course Contents

Unit 1: The Nature of International Business
Unit 2: Global Economy and Regional Economic Integration
Unit 3: Globalization and International Business
Unit 4: Modes of Entering IB
Unit 5: International Business Environment
Unit 6: Planning, Organization, and Control of IB
Unit 7: Strategies for IB
Project Work

MGT 252: Management of Industrial Relations

Course Contents

Unit 1: Introduction to Industrial Relations
Unit 2: Trade Unionism and Employers’ Association
Unit 3: Prevention and Settlement of Industrial Disputes
Unit 4: Industrial Democracy and Participatory Management
Unit 5: Labour Legislation
Unit 6: Wage Determination
Unit 7: ILO and Nepal
Unit 8: Labor Welfare and Social Security
Unit 9: Technology and Industrial Relations
Unit 10: Industrial Relations Scenario in Nepal
Project Work

MGT 253: Productivity Management

Course Contents

Unit 1: Introduction
Unit 2: Factors Affecting Productivity and Productivity Improvement
Unit 3: Productivity Measurement
Unit 4: Productivity Improvement Tools and Technique
Unit 5: Productivity Movement and International and Regional Cooperation
Unit 6: Productivity in Nepal
Project Work

MGT 254: Quality Management

Course Contents

Unit 1: Introduction
Unit 2: Managing for Quality Products and Services
Unit 3: Quality Planning, Control and TQM
Unit 4: Service Quality Management and Cost of Quality
Unit 5: Quality Improvement and Results

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